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Hedd Wyn, writer with a Welsh connection!

Hedd Wyn

Eisteddfod Bard.
Connection: Born in Wales.

comment by:Cameraman
Winner of the National Eisteddfod 'Black Chair' 1917.

comment by:Tobler?n
Correction: killed in the Somme and was chaired posthumously.

comment by:JohnAntony
Hedd Wyn, real name Ellis Humphrey Evans was born in Trawsfynydd in 1887. He died on July 31 1917 in Ypres. Also known as "The Bard of the Black Chair" Eisteddfod Birkenhead 1917.